This Aventura shopping complex is expanding with new stores and cafes. Here’s the list
Once a Sears store, Esplanade at Aventura continues to grow next to the thriving Aventura Mall.
The 215,000-square-foot complex at 19505 Biscayne Blvd., owned and managed separately from the better-known mall, recently announced several newly opened and future tenants that will take up more than a tenth of its space.
Among the newbies: A LEGO Store, STK Steakhouse and The Salty.
“We are blown away by how the community has embraced Esplanade at Aventura since our first tenant opened last year,” Eric Dinenberg, COO of parent company Seritage Growth Properties, said in a statement. “With the opening of these amazing brands and additional tenant announcements coming soon, Esplanade at Aventura will be the premier destination for all-day dining, shopping, entertainment, fitness and wellness.”
What’s opened at Esplanade
▪ The LEGO Store. You’ve played with the interlocking plastic bricks. (Your great-grandparents probably did, too; Lego was created in Denmark in 1932.) You’ve stepped on them. You’ve seen the spin-off movies. Now shop the Esplanade’s 2,800 square foot Lego toy store on the shopping center’s first level.
▪ Pure Barre. A fitness studio on Esplanade’s second level featuring four group class formats of low-impact, high-intensity strength, stretch and cardio workouts that aim at delivering a total-body workout.
▪ STK Steakhouse. Miami-Dade’s second STK (the first opened a decade ago in Miami Beach and there’s another at Disney Springs in Orlando) is on Esplanade’s first floor. STK melds prime meat such as filets, skirt steak and Delmonicos with choice seafood including Maine lobster linguine and maple-rubbed salmon, and merges it all with vibey DJ-pumped tunes.
“We chose Aventura because it’s a dynamic, fast-growing area with a sophisticated clientele that appreciates high-quality dining experiences,” Emanuel “Manny” Hilario, president and CEO of parent company The One Group told the Miami Herald in November.
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▪ Fit2Run and its 3,650-square-foot complex opened recently at Esplanade. The footwear store sells running shoes, apparel and fitness equipment. Staffers can evaluate customers with a complimentary video-taped gait analysis and an iStep barometric scan to help you find the right shoe for your foot. Then go ahead and try them out on an indoor track.
Coming to Esplanade
▪ The Salty (aka The Salty Donut). The artisanal craft doughnut shop that started as a pop-up in Wynwood and expanded to Brickell, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Orlando and outside Florida is as famous for its baked goodd and coffees as it is for Instagram-worthy posts. The new Salty on Esplanade’s first level is set to open later this winter.
▪ The Shade Store has been marketing custom shades, blinds and draperies since 1946. The new location on the first level is expected to be a showroom of just over 1,200 square feet when it opens in the winter.
▪ Skin Laundry. Skin rejuvenating products and treatments inside a clinic on Esplanade’s first level. Marked “coming soon” on Esplanade’s website.
▪ The Treats court lists Chip City, a cookie shop of over 50 varieties, and Salt & Straw ice cream shop as coming neighbors of The Salty.
▪ Gas Bijoux is a “French haute-fantaisie” jewelry store. No opening date listed for the outlet set for the shopping center’s first level. There is a Gas Bijoux on Grand Avenue in Coconut Grove.
▪ Hästens, a Swedish luxury bed and mattress manufacturer with a location in Miami’s Design District opens its 1,800-square-foot Esplanade location on level one this winter.
▪ If So opened in Coral Gables on Ponce de Leon and Boca Raton and joins Esplanade in the winter. If So sells fashions to women and girls ages 7 and up.
About the Esplanade
The Esplanade was originally a 12.3-acre plot that housed a Sears, a Sears Auto Center and their parking lots adjacent to the Aventura Mall. As long ago as 2014, plans were conceived to demolish the struggling department store and build a mall in its place.
The Sears, among the first stores in business when the Aventura Mall opened in 1983, was torn down in 2017.
The Esplanade opened next to the Aventura Mall in 2023 and it’s surrounded by the same perimeter road just east of Biscayne Boulevard.
But despite being adjacent neighbors, the malls don’t allow shoppers to access one complex from the other without going outside into the parking lot and walking to and from separate entrances.
